A: Steve Gillen, Publishing Attorney, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, PLLC:

"You are generally free to place a link in your webpage or CD to a third party website, but there are some potentially troublesome things to avoid. Beware of deep links, framed links, and links that falsely suggest an affiliation with or endorsement by the site to which you are linking. Deep links are links into web pages that aren't made available to the public without stepping through preliminary screens that may contain important notices, disclaimers or advertising. Framed links are links that pull the content from a third party website into a frame in your web page so that it may appear to an unsophisticated user that the content is being served by you. Finally, you should avoid using the third party's logos, designs, or stylized word marks as buttons or links because to do so might lead the user to infer incorrectly that your connection to the site is by permission or through an affiliation with that linked site."

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